F. B. (Frederic B.) Wright

Frederic B. Wright, usually listed in catalogs as F. B. Wright and identified as born in 1867, is chiefly remembered for A Practical Handbook on the Distillation of Alcohol from Farm Products. Internet Archive records for the book show it was published in 1907 by Spon & Chamberlain in New York.

Project Gutenberg and Open Library both list Wright as the author of this distillation manual, and the Gutenberg author page points to that title as the main work currently associated with him. The book’s subject matter suggests he wrote for readers interested in practical processes such as malting, fermentation, distillation, alcoholometry, and the denaturing of alcohol.

Reliable biographical details beyond his birth year are hard to confirm from the sources available here, so it is safest to treat Wright as an obscure technical writer whose reputation rests mainly on this surviving handbook. No suitable verified portrait image was found during this search.